En-bettering* the Sunday Salon
There are now 200 Sunday Salon Members!
Thank you Debra! Every week there seems to be an added feature - it just gets en-bettered* every time.
*word copyright D. Hamel 2008.
Thank you Debra! Every week there seems to be an added feature - it just gets en-bettered* every time.
*word copyright D. Hamel 2008.
posted by Clare Dudman at 9:58 am
8 Comments:
Argh! A Google search turns up pre-Hamel use of the term.
Anyway, we're now down to 196 members again, though I have to add one, so 197. There were a number of defunct blogs, it turns out.
Shame...obviously a good word, though! I do think we should have a Salon Party when we reach 200.
"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man"
The Simpsons, episode 3F13, originally aired 02/18/1996; this quite useful word has entered relatively common usage in some subgroups of US society:
Apprentice: This here pipe end be too small.
Plumber: Well, get the #%$^&*@ reamer and embiggen it!
Yes! Jedediah Springfield.
Interesting. Embiggens sounds correct--i.e., an m before the b--but "enbetter" sounds better to me.... I guess it's because n and t are both dental consonants.
Yes! Jedediah Springfield.
Interesting. Embiggens sounds correct--i.e., an m before the b--but "enbetter" sounds better to me.... I guess it's because n and t are both dental consonants.
Yes, I really can't think of a real alternative to either embiggened or enbettered. It's strange, I think I know exactly what they mean, and they just seem so uniquely right.
Enbettered is a perfectly cromulent word.
and the number of the members is over 200 again, hurray :)
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